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The book "Rhyme on the Palette" is the second collaborative project
between the artist Izya Shlosberg and the poet Elena Sosnina. The
title of the book speaks for itself. It is hard to say what is
doing the illustrating here, the poem or the painting, or vice
versa. They are connected to one another on many levels: emotional,
cerebral, spiritual...
The expression "The Last Cicada" is one of dual interpretation.
Simply, it could represent the very last insect, which at the end
of the summer has taken residence in a warm corner of your home.
Metaphorically speaking, it could be understood to mean the actual
last of all cicadas, a kind of "Last of the Mohicans" and sole
survivor of its type. Poets often, if not always, see themselves
like spectators and outsiders rather than socializers. They don't
easily merge with society. "The Last cicada" is no exception and is
the idea with which this writer identifies with. Sing out loud
until you gone Life is too short In this book the author Elena
Sosnina has collected her thoughts and impressions from the year
2011. She warns the reader in the book's foreword, that this is not
a personal blog. It is rather a volume of spontaneous insights,
inspired through her experiences with various books, artworks, and
events this past year. She has loosely divided her book into eight
chapters, each of them featuring a certain poetic meter, from iamb
to vers libre... All the aspects of the Universe exist in every
moment of life, and all the poems written in one year at a poet's
desk most certainly can represent the entire life of a living
creature.
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Love Meter (Russian, Paperback)
Elena Sosnina; Photographs by Constantine Mihaltses; Edited by Julia Gavrilenko Phd
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Discovery Miles 1 930
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When a poet finds her old notebooks, filled with verses which she
authored 20 years ago, it can lead to feelings of self-mockery
since what she once wrote seems childish and naive to her now. On
the other hand, the lyricism of youth and expressions of romance,
bitterness, and disenchantment of the young at heart are dearly
missed by the more mature, or shall we say aged, writer. The book
"Love Meter" introduces us to Elena Sosnina's "rosy" period, where
the classic style of an even and harmonious metering system is
evident. She combined those early love poems with the urbanistic
ones from later years, for contrast. It's quiet a shock to see
these roses sprouted their thorns - meters become irregular, rhymes
appear sparser, and the content becomes more prose-like. But as
author mentions in the foreword, the one thing which stays constant
throughout the whole book - love lives in between the lines.
This book was created as a combined effort between Russian poet
Elena Sosnina and artist Izya Shlosberg. It's intent was to
juxtapose their individual paintings and poems in a way as to
summons a multitude of senses and emotions.
The Russian poet Elena Sosnina calls her second book of poetry a
winter book, as opposed to designating her first book of poems a
fall book. The inspiration for the sequel stems from the colder
months of winter, when scholarliness is in full bloom amidst a
world of graph-paper, class schedules, and test preps. Within the
varying poetic themes, such as a Russian Radio interview and a
Marilyn Monroe biopic, the book "Mixed Feelings" is all about
grading, finalizing, and summing up life's unique and sometimes
ambiguous experiences.
Elena Sosnina's poetry is often written in the tone of a
confessional. In the book "The Music Of Thin Spheres" the author
stayed true to herself, but has made a giant leap from the personal
to the eternal.
From this book, by the New York bonded russian poetess Elena
Sosnina, you get a feeling of a constant searching. What is the
meaning of life? What am I? What is After? What are the answers to
these philosophical, yet primal human questions? The poems
represent this quest in a cluster of rhythmically fascinating,
cleverly rhymed, and emotionally charged poems, in which the
characters, very well defined and almost touchable, are immediately
recognized by the readers in an "It's all about me " kind of
fashion. All this done within an array of feelings, situations, and
places, outlined in different chapters (Rhymograffiti, Sansara,
Erodinamics, Russian club, Dans-class) giving the audience a chance
to get into the poet's very quarters, to only find themselves,
speechless and deeply moved, when the author dissapears, becoming
just a dancing wind in between words.
Set of poems by artist and writer Izya Shlosberg includes over 100
poems written during last 10 years.
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